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kelsey_requiem
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CreativeEmbassy, good one! thumbs up.
though i really liked your theory, somehow i think that S. Marchant and Sente are the same person. [ Schizophraenia possible. ]. Can't really explain why. Anyway, twas nice!
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:03 am
Nightmare Tony
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/stupid joke begin
London, one city most in desperate need of a mohel
/stupid joke end
Seriously, wonder if we sohuld have a pool for if Sente and S. Marchant are one and the same. have to figure a tossup for multiple personalities...
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:36 am
da5id
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I firmly believe that Sente and S. Marchant are two different people, even though they apparently both want the cube. Sente wants the cube for the good of his society, and S. Marchant clearly wants the cube for his own. IF Sente and Marchant are the same person, then he has to be schizophrenic or something.
please explain why you believe this, i seem to have missed something
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:44 am
Mikeyj
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 1847 Location: London
Sticking in my oar...
Both storylines seem entirely plausible but I get a slightly different notion of where here and there are.
The impression I get of the world of the academy is more of one parallel to our own rather than another planet or anything too alien. I think that the references to London add a bit of weight to this flimsy hypothesis. The academy is in parallel London (which has similar problems to Oxford...too many tourists and old buildings...perfect setting!). The cube is powerful enough to be a danger to both universes, hence the warning from Sente. Although that means that two things can affect this universe...the cube and whatever Sente is using to communicate with us.
Initially I was thinking they were the same thing until I remembered that they've lost the cube !
Something I've seen someone else mention (can't remember where, sorry) is the possibility that Sente's contact is from the future which seems to ring true...retro shoes anyone?.
Mikey
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:38 am
tanner
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ok as there is so much nonsense SPEC on here i thought i'd add my own
as I suggested before (another thread or irc) - maybe time goes backwards and faster in perplexcity universe
so the timeline might look like this
Code:
EARTH PAST ----- |-----PERPLEXCITY FUTURE
|
|
We hear about the |
lost cube in letter |Perplexcity lose cube
from Sente |
|
|Academy investigate properties of cube
We search for cube |
|Zeller's experiment kills him
|
|Zeller plays with cube
We find cube and |
return it to |Perplexcity gets cube
Perplexcity |
|
|
EARTH FUTURE ---- | ---- PERPLEXCITY PAST
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:05 am
Mikeyj
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Don't like the look of that
I don't mind investing SOME time, but I think I'd be playing the game for ever...I'd planned on retiring and pipe smoking at some point!
can parallel universes have different ages. If not what is it that makes them parallel?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:20 am
kelsey_requiem
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to infinity, and beyond!
nice one, really.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:17 am
573w4r7
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there is a chance its a parallel universe.
But then, what is alpha centauri? its so far away, and you know what hapens when you get a wormhole involved, being a planet 2 billion lightyears away it could even be a mirrored earth. So infact it could be both... now theres a spec.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:17 pm
mr_good_trips
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Don't start measuring in light. If time becomes distance and distance becomes time, this forum is in for a whole world, parallel or not, of trouble.
The wormhole is actually the only theory that would link up to alpha centauri. If we relied on the messages arriving by normal (known) means then we might as well give up because civilisation destroyed itself on sentes world thousands of years ago and we cannot reply to any information we receive anyway.
"I cannot believe God plays dice" - Albert Einstein
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:48 pm
573w4r7
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good point.
well, i like the wormhole theory.
As long as it wasnt someone faking to be AdrianHon who put the link up.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:03 pm
mr_good_trips
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573w4r7 wrote:
good point.
As long as it wasnt someone faking to be AdrianHon who put the link up.
Adrian hon putting up the link?
In that case I cannot believe the PM's play dice!
Although a dice is a cube, hmm. Have we examined all boardgames for clues?
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:26 pm
tanner
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"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:44 pm
neon snake
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"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
Of course, if the universe is infinite, then anything which is possible actually exists somewhere out there....
*runs and hides*
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 5:49 am
KSG
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kelsey_requiem wrote:
CreativeEmbassy, good one! thumbs up. ;)
though i really liked your theory, somehow i think that S. Marchant and Sente are the same person. [ Schizophraenia possible. ]. Can't really explain why. Anyway, twas nice!
I'm going to assume you mean Multiple Personality Dissorder, because schizophrenia, were it involved, would basically mean that S. Marchant is hallucinating hearing Sente talk to him. That would hardly explain him sending letters AS Sente. The two dissorders are completely unrelated.
Edit: Oh, and so you don't think I'm picking on you, I know CreativeEmbassy used "schizophrenia" first. This is just a minor correction to whoever reads it.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:06 pm
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Chris K
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I really think that S. Marchant and Sente are different people.
We know that Sente is currently in a position of great authority. He talks in a fluid, educated and articulate way.
S. Marchant seems like someone who has gone mad.
I think that S. Marchant seems more like someone from The Cube's history, like someone who went mad trying to find or steal it. I don't think his story would have been confined to the archives if he was a current character.
If S. Marchant is from the Cube's history and he is Sente (ie the leader) then you would expect to see his name on the Logo like Zeller and Taversen.
I recon S. Marchant was someone who opposed the academy when it was first being set up.
I mean, if your name was Sente Marchant, would you sign a letter to total strangers from another planet with your first name? Sente must only have one name, Morpheus-stylee.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:06 pm
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